STILL FLOATING Comes to Perth Theatre's Joan Knight Studio

A brand new piece of warm-hearted comic storytelling about love, resilience and laughing at the things that should make us cry, from BBC award-winning writer/performer Shôn Dale-Jones comes to Perth Theatre this month.

Previously founding director of Hoipolloi and Hugh Hughes Productions, Dale-Jones has recently launched his brand new theatre company SDJ Productions. Over the last 25 years Shôn has had much success, having written 27 theatre plays, 5 BBC radio dramas and a variety of short films and site specific work. His work has been translated into 7 languages and been presented in 20 countries across 6 continents. He has co-produced work with BBC Radio 4, Royal Court, Barbican, Sydney Opera House and National Theatre Wales. He has won several awards including the BBC Audio Drama Award, two Fringe Firsts, a Total Theatre Award and a nomination for the Prix Europa. Shôn is renowned for creating theatre that addresses inequality and the divisions in our society between the haves and have-nots - he has told stories about refugees and the importance of acknowledging that opportunities shape individual lives and the shape of our society. He raised £100,000 for charities working with vulnerable children by performing THE DUKE and ME & ROBIN HOOD as fundraising performances between 2016 - 2019.

When an unnamed narrator, played by Shôn, starts telling us a story about his friend trying to persuade him to remount an old show called FLOATING, we find out why it's almost impossible to return to the past. Especially now - 2022 is radically different from 2006.

As the story of a real life starts to weave in and out of the story of the Isle of Anglesey floating away from mainland Britain, we feel a strong desire to escape the present day and drift away with the island.

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